World History

Question 1

What were ancient civilizations based around?

Answer 1

Fertile river valleys

Question 2

What civilizations were around the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?

Answer 2

Sumer, Babylon, Assyria

Question 3

What civilizations were around the Nile?

Answer 3

Pharaoh Menes’s Egyptian empire

Question 4

What civilizations were around the Yellow River?

Answer 4

Shang and Zhou Dynasties

Question 5

What civilizations were around the Indus?

Answer 5

ancient Indian civilization

Question 6

Who created the first great civilization in Mesopotamia?

Answer 6

Sumerians

Question 7

What did they invent?

Answer 7

cuneiform

Question 8

What was the Sumerians most powerful city-state?

Answer 8

Ur

Question 9

Who unified the regions along the Nile to create the Egyptian empire?

Answer 9

Pharaoh Menes

Question 10

What was the Egyptian empire’s capital?

Answer 10

Memphis

Question 11

What did China’s Shang Dynasty (1750-1040BC) leave behind?

Answer 11

Intricate metalwork and early written Chinese

Question 12

What is the earliest know example of written law?

Answer 12

The Code of Hamurabi 1700BC

Question 13

Early Judaism still influence what?

Answer 13

Justice, morality, and ethics

Question 14

Greek and Roman civilization passed down ideas on what?

Answer 14

democracy, national citizenship, arts and sciences

Question 15

Julius Caesar made himself what?

Answer 15

dictator for life

Question 16

Who was Julius Caesar’s heir?

Answer 16

Octavian (Augustus Caesar) the first Roman emperor

Question 17

Who were the advanced civilizations in now Mexico and South America?

Answer 17

Maya, Inca, and Aztec

Question 18

Who depicted ancient King David?

Answer 18

Donatello

Question 19

Who painted the Flagellation?

Answer 19

Piero della Francesca

Question 20

Who painted the Sinstine Chapel?

Answer 20

Michelangelo

Question 21

Who painted the La Gioconda or the Mona Lisa?

Answer 21

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 22

Who designed the Chateau du Louvre?

Answer 22

Pierre Lescot

Question 23

When was Shakespeare born?

Answer 23

1564

Question 24

Who drew the Vitruvian Man?

Answer 24

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 25

Which Spanish conquistador vanquished the Aztec Empire?

Answer 25

Herman Cortes

Question 26

Who subjugated Puerto Rico?

Answer 26

Ponce de Leon

Question 27

Who subjugated Cuba?

Answer 27

Diego Velaquez

Question 28

Where did the Industrial Revolution originate?

Answer 28

Great Britain in the late eighteenth century

Question 29

In World War I who were the Triple Entente forces?

Answer 29

Great Britain, France and Russia

Question 30

What was one factor the US decided to join World War I?

Answer 30

The Zimmermann telegram

Question 31

What pact did Hilter violate?

Answer 31

The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact he did this by invading the Soviet Union in 1941

Question 32

Who were the axis powers in WWII?

Answer 32

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 33

Who were two major figures in the Chinese civil war?

Answer 33

Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong

Question 34

What did the Mexican Constitution of 1917 recognize?

Answer 34

labor rights and social orders of the people

Question 35

What concern resulted in the 1980 Iran-Iraq War?

Answer 35

The Ayatollah Khomeini adn his Islamic regime might affect the tenuous balance of alliances within the Muslim world